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paulsherwin · 25th Aug 2020, 9:43 am

International calls were certainly very expensive and were not generally used for social purposes. Australia was particularly expensive, a place where lots of Brits had relatives, and it was common to send voice messages on 3" reels of tape by air mail. This continued into the cassette era, though by then IDD had arrived and costs had come down somewhat (though calls were still very expensive by today's standards).

25th Aug 2020, 9:43 am	#3
paulsherwin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 27,966	Re: International Direct Dialling (IDD) provision throughout the UK International calls were certainly very expensive and were not generally used for social purposes. Australia was particularly expensive, a place where lots of Brits had relatives, and it was common to send voice messages on 3" reels of tape by air mail. This continued into the cassette era, though by then IDD had arrived and costs had come down somewhat (though calls were still very expensive by today's standards).